Between the Asimovian #AI takeover to the Orwellian history rewrites, I think it’s time to agree that life imitating art is getting old when the art it’s imitating is always a #scifi #fantasy dystopian lit. Where’s my #WomanOnTheEdgeOfTime intersectional feminist utopia? #booksky

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 155: #WomanOnTheEdgeOfTime by #MargePiercy

Follow #ConnieRamos, a Mexican-American woman who communicates with the #future and is put in a mental hospital.

A book about an #utopian future, equality and ecology. Like Connie, the #novel is way ahead of its time.

Accurate. Tho honestly a big miss leaving out #OryxAndCrake by @margaretatwood.bsky.social which is, alongside #ParableOfTheSower by #OctaviaButler, imho the most accurate description of MAGA’s dystopian hellscape. Honorable mention to #WomanOnTheEdgeOfTime by #MargePiercy too. #Booksky